Hadoop Solutions Architect

Bank of America • Plano, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! LOB Description: We strive to build fault tolerant design patterns that support zero to minimal downtime in support of distributed platforms, complex compute environments, and Cloud technologies in pursuit of creating best in class big data ecosystems. They must be able to work with end users, stakeholders, executives, system administrators, and vendors to help deploy those solutions from POC to Production. Manages relationships with business and technology leaders and vendors for technical products and creates an inclusive and healthy working environment to resolve organizational impediments and blockers. Creates the technology strategy for a respective technical domain, aligning execution with product strategy by working with Product Managers ,Product team members, and other stakeholders. Design and architect robust data warehouse solutions that support complex analytical workloads. Lead the evaluation and selection of big data technologies, tools, and frameworks. Develop data models, ETL processes, and data pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data efficiently. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into architectural designs. Ensure data quality, integrity, and security across all data platforms. Optimize performance of existing data processes and warehouse architecture. Mentor and guide junior architects and data engineers, promoting best practices in data architecture. Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in big data and data warehousing. Provide thought leadership in big data strategy and execution. LOB Responsibilities: This job is responsible for innovating and leveraging technologies in the Big Data, Data Analytics and Data Warehousing realms. Key responsibilities include delivering the architecture and usage patterns across a wide variety of solutions, partnering other analytic teams, security and tenants to meet a diverse usage of delivery and access patterns. Job Description: This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap. Responsibilities: Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability) Managerial Responsibilities: This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above. Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals. Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement. Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions. Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues. People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance. Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions. Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization. Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical solutions experience including 3+ years in relevant enterprise data platforms and processing on Hadoop, Teradata, and Data Transformation Products Enterprise Business Intelligence and Analytics.
• Varied data processing engines and strategies: Databricks, Snowflake, Big Query, Watson X, Starburst/Trino
• Experience in multiple programming disciplines including Java, Python, and Scripting Languages.
• Deep understanding Virtualize and Containerized platforms: Openshift, Kubernetes, docker, VMware
• Understanding of storage and data replication platforms: CEPH, Cirata, Ozone, MinIO, Kudu, HDFS
• Understanding of Network and Security principals, Creating designs that adhere to Security Baselines
• Understanding of Cloud architectures including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, compute, storage, network, and security solutions that run on large Cloud service providers (Azure, Google, AWS).
• Ability to work independently and lead a project team

Nice To Haves

• BS in Computer Science, information Technology or related field.
• Linux
• Python
• PostgreSQL
• Ansible in a secure environment
• Agile
• JIRA

Responsibilities

• Innovating and leveraging technologies in the Big Data, Data Analytics and Data Warehousing realms.
• Delivering the architecture and usage patterns across a wide variety of solutions, partnering other analytic teams, security and tenants to meet a diverse usage of delivery and access patterns.
• Defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services.
• Defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements.
• Working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.
• Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services.
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates.
• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments.
• Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable.
• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions.
• Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products.
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability).
• Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
• Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
• Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
• Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
• Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
• Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
• Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Benefits

• affordable, competitive and flexible benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior